make vivid

Friedkin’s is spare and no-nonsense, ratcheting up the tension through well-chosen angles, lacerating cuts and performances that make vivid impressions even when allotted scant screen time.

Graham Allison, in a review for The Times, praised “Ellsberg’s effort to make vivid the genuine madness of the ‘doomsday machine,’ and the foolishness of betting our survival on mutually assured destruction.”

Interviews by Koh and Tines with relatives make vivid their backgrounds.

I use the Game of Life to make vivid for my students the ideas of determinism, higher-order patterns and information.

I mention fictional stories, not to suggest that they might be prophetic, but to point out that they make vivid the risks of assuming that we know what we don’t actually know.